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In their book “Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000,” Mary Bufwack and Robert Oermann neatly summarize the popular impression of Tanya Tucker that was formed way back in the seventies and has never entirely worn off, even as her career approaches the half-century mark. Tucker, they write, was “the naughty Nashville gal with […]

The free streaming site Le Cinéma Club, which offers one film each week, has followed its spectacular rediscovery of Claire Denis’s 1991 short film “Keep It For Yourself” with something peculiarly similar yet wondrously distinctive: “Family Business,” a short film from 1984 by Chantal Akerman, in which she also stars. The seventeen-minute film is a […]

The Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year exhibit opened this week at the Powerhouse Museum, showcasing the incredible winning entries from this year’s competition. The winners were selected from over 2000 submissions, with Western Australian photographer Mat Beetson’s ‘Fin Whale’s Demise’ announced as the overall winner. Beetson in his winning drone photograph captured the […]

Click:全国楼凤论坛 It’s remarkable how much time the Democratic Presidential candidates have spent explicating the details of plans that have no chance of becoming law. There is, for example, no possibility at all that the Senate will pass any kind of Medicare for All plan in 2021. But the next President will certainly have a chance […]

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Organize your books by color before complaining that you don’t have time to read. Listen to the last three minutes of the eight podcasts you had almost-but-not-quite completed. Drink a sip of water at any point during the day—self-care is essential. Water your plants, and then watch the water leak out while thinking about how […]

Earlier this month, after a man acting on Donald Trump’s lies about a Hispanic “invasion” of the U.S. drove to El Paso, Texas, and killed twenty-two people at a Walmart, Beto O’Rourke hit pause on his Presidential campaign. O’Rourke, who grew up in El Paso, and represented it for six years in Congress, went home […]

Mass-media companies, adept at anticipating trends—or at least catching up to them and cashing in—have been busy preparing an exciting range of original TV programs, books, and movies that offer new perspectives on what it means to be “a woman of a certain age.” Here’s some of what we have to look forward to this […]

La climber statunitense Sasha DiGiulian ha ripetuto Bellavista sulla Cima Ovest delle Tre Cime di Lavaredo, nelle Dolomiti. Bel colpo per la climber Sasha DiGiulian che si toglie la soddisfazione della prima ripetizione femminile di Bellavista, la via aperta in solitaria ed in inverno da Alexander Huber nel 1999 e in seguito liberata nel 2001 […]

Nel mese di giugno il neozelandese Steve Bate ha salito El Capitan lungo la via Zodiac in Yosemite. Quello che rende la salita particolare è che Bate è affetto da Retinite Pigmentosa. Pochi anni fa a Steve Bate, un climber 35enne neozelandese che abita in Scozia, è stata diagnosticata una Retinite Pigmentosa, un rara malattia […]